Mr.
Charles Major, of Shelbyville, Indiana, wrote the wonderfully popular
historical romance, When Knighthood was in Flower, which has already
sold over a quarter million copies.
It is not mere luck that makes a piece of fiction acceptable to the
public. The old saying, "Where there is so much smoke there must be
fire," holds good in the case of smoke about a novel. When a book
moves many people of varying temperaments and in all circles of
intelligence there is power in it. Behind such a book we have the
right to imagine an author endowed with admirable gifts of
imagination. The ancient saying, "The cup is glad of the wine it
holds," was but another way of expressing the rule which judges a tree
by its fruit and a man by his works; for out of character comes style,
and out of a man's nature is his taste distilled. Every soul, like the
cup, is glad of what it holds.
Mr. Major himself has said, in his straightforward way, "It is what a
man does that counts." By this rule of measurement Mr.
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